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The wind in my hair: one woman's struggle against the hijab | Global | The Guardian - 0 views

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  • Masih explains that girls in her country are raised to “keep their heads low, to be as unobtrusive as possible, and to be meek”; and she couldn’t be more different. “I’ve got too much hair, too much voice and I’m too much of a woman for them,” she says, and within two minutes of talking to her, I can see exactly what she means. Masih is fun, noisy and opinionated and, worst of all for the people who run her country, unafraid.
  • because her mother gave her some advice about how to deal with the dark. “She said to me, the darkness can only devour you if you let your fear in. So open your eyes as wide as you can, and face the darkness.”
  • domestic coping strategy became her mantra.
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  • From that moment on, says Masih, everything was different. “Looking at photographs of my family before the revolution, you see my mum wearing a skirt and a scarf, and my father has just a small beard. But after Khomeini returned it was forbidden to shave so his beard grew huge and my mother had to be entirely covered up in a dark chador. Everyone looked miserable after the revolution: fresh and happy faces like my mother’s face before were covered up, and sad.”
  • But before the revolution there was social freedom, women were allowed to participate as equals in much of life – they could do sport, they could go to the gym, there were female judges. The people who backed the revolution wanted political freedom, and they ended up not getting that – plus, they lost their social freedom.”
  • To people who tell her that the hijab is just a bit of cloth, and there are much bigger problems to be faced in the Middle East, Masih has this message: “This is about a government that’s controlling a whole society through women. It makes me so sad when people say it’s a small thing, because everything starts from that infringement of our rights.” A whole culture of intolerance, she says, is built on that; and women bear its brunt, from the age of seven.
  • When I was a child my mum would say: ‘If you get thrown out of the room, you always find a window to get back in.’ And now social media is my window. The authorities are watching me, and my campaign, because they know how powerful it is that ordinary women are protesting. We’re like the suffragettes, we’re risking breaking the law for something we absolutely know is right.”
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The Economic Impact of Domestic Violence in Pinellas County: $132 Million - University ... - 0 views

www.usfsp.edu/...in-pinellas-county-132-million research Pinellas CASA costs economics Harris USF Tiedemann domestic_violence
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  • five major buckets: Cost to community at $81 million; such as days missed from work, children in foster care, court and law enforcement resources used and even lost wages of those who commit the abuse who are now in jail, Cost of long-term impact at $37 million; including loss of lifetime earnings due to premature death and the value of lifetime suffering from abuse, for which researchers utilized a similar calculation that juries and insurance companies use to assess damages; Cost of health care at around $5.5 million; such as emergency room visits, ambulance, physical therapy and mental health care, Cost of emergency housing and lost or damaged supplies at $4.5 million; including shelters, food, transportation, childcare and valuables left behind, and Cost of support services at $3.5 million; programs and interventions that help victims and their children and try and prevent future abuse.
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Economic Security for Survivors | Institute for Women's Policy Research - 0 views

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  • Abuse can impose significant expenses on survivors, including physical and mental health care costs, lost wages, safety planning, and relocation costs.
  • Furthermore, economic abuse can result in life-long consequences due to job loss, debt, damaged credit, or coercion into crime.
  • Domestic and sexual violence programs, the justice system, and communities play distinct and important roles in supporting survivors’ independence and recovery from the costs of abuse and these groups must recognize and respond to the economic barriers and costs survivors face.
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Domestic violence results in huge costs for economy - 0 views

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  • According to the WBG, domestic abuse imposes an economic burden on individuals, households, private businesses and the public sector through the cost of healthcare services used to treat victims, a loss of productivity and reduced income for women due to missed work
  • "Experiencing IPV [intimate partner violence] is thus associated with increased absenteeism over the long term and presenteeism in the short term through tardiness, not showing up for work, and use of sick days as well as problems with concentration, job performance, and productivity," it added.
  • In the U.S., meanwhile, the cost of domestic abuse exceeds $5.8 billion per year: $4.1 billion for direct medical and health care services and nearly $1.8 billion for productivity losses, according to the United Nations.
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News Releases - Newsroom - Senator Murray Renews Efforts to Empower Domestic Violence S... - 0 views

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  • Organizations supporting the Security and Financial Empowerment (SAFE) Act: National Domestic Violence Hotline, National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV), National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV), National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence, Futures Without Violence, Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence, and National Resource Center on Domestic Violence.
  • “Severe physical violence costs survivors of domestic violence nearly 8 million days of paid work – or the equivalent of 32,000 full-time jobs – each year,” said Katie Ray-Jones, CEO of the National Domestic Violence Hotline. “Currently, a survivor can use leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act to care for a sick or injured spouse, but cannot use it to seek protection from an abusive partner. We need Congress to pass the SAFE Act so that survivors no longer have to make the tragic choice of risking their safety to protect their livelihood.”
  • .[1] One in four women have suffered severe physical violence by an intimate partner.[2] As a result of this violence, survivors of severe intimate partner violence lose nearly 8 million days of paid work – the equivalent of more than 32,000 full-time jobs – and almost 5.6 million days of household productivity each year.[3] Annual costs are estimated at over 8.3 billion dollars.[4] Survivors of intimate partner violence require time to care for their health or to find safety solutions, such as obtaining a restraining order or finding housing, to prevent sexual assault or domestic violence.
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  • The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, 2010-2012 State Report, CDC. [2] The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, 2010-2012 State Report, CDC. [3] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Costs of intimate partner violence against women in the United States. Atlanta (GA): CDC, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control; 2003. [4] Max, W., Rice, D. P., Finkelstein, E., Bardwell, R. A., & Leadbetter, S. (2004). The economic toll of intimate partner violence against women in the united states. Violence and Victims, 19(3), 259-72. Permalink: https://www.murray.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/11/senator-murray-renews-efforts-to-empower-domestic-violence-survivors-by-breaking-down-economic-educational-barriers Related Links News Releases Patty in the News Multimedia Blog Office Information Washington, D.C. Office 154 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 Phone: (202) 224-2621 Fax: (202) 224-0238 Toll Free: (866) 481-9186 Everett Office 2930 Wetmore Avenue, Ste. 9D Everett, Washington 98201 Phone: (425) 259-6515 Fax: (425) 259-7152 Vancouver Office The Marshall House 1323 Officer's Row Vancouver, Washington 98661 Phone: (360) 696-7797 Fax: (360) 696-7798 Yakima Office 402 E. Yakima Ave, Suite 420 Yakima, Washington 98901 Phone: (509) 453-7462 Fax: (509) 453-7731 Seattle Office 2988 Jackson Federal Building 915 2nd Avenue Seattle, Washington 98174 Phone: (206) 553-5545 Toll Free: (866) 481-9186 Fax: (206) 553-0891 Spokane Office 10 North Post Street, Suite 600 Spokane, Washington 99201 Phone: (509) 624-9515 Fax: (509) 624-9561
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Want to Reduce Domestic Violence? Treat It Like An Economic Issue. - Talk Poverty - 0 views

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  • The right to college, economic; college sexual assault, women’s. Affordable healthcare, economic; access to abortion, women’s. Livable wages, economic; the wage gap, women’s. You can begin to see the issue: We separate the two spheres in our thinking, but in reality they’re so closely intertwined that they might as well be the same thing.
  • way possible. But if you shift your focus just a little bit to the side, to the realm of money and work, another pattern emerges — and it may prove to be far more useful in terms of crafting policy that saves victims’ lives. In one study, 60% of domestic violence survivors reported losing their jobs as a direct consequence of the abuse. 98% said that abuse made them worse at their jobs — they couldn’t concentrate because they’d been attacked, or were anticipating an attack when they got home.
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Why Domestic Violence Is an Economic Issue | The Nation - 0 views

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  • In one study, 60 percent of domestic violence survivors reported losing their jobs as a direct consequence of the abuse. Ninety-eight percent said that abuse made them worse at their jobs—they couldn’t concentrate because they’d been attacked, or were anticipating an attack when they got home. Generally, abuse victims miss work more often, come in late more often, are hospitalized for injuries more often, suffer more long-term and chronic health conditions (depression, PTSD, substance abuse), and thereby accrue more medical debt. When you add in the economic abuse present in 98 percent of abusive relationships—anything from sabotaging job interviews to holding a monopoly over family bank accounts to simply making sure that things like cell phone contracts are in the abuser’s name—it’s no surprise that a woman who does try to leave her abuser frequently finds that her entire financial support structure disintegrates when the relationship does. It’s for precisely this reason that the majority of homeless women are domestic violence survivors.
  • And when we look at domestic violence through money, what we see is a power play: Women are kept captive to male violence because they can’t afford to live without the men who hurt them.
  • The division between “economic issues” and “women’s issues” is artificial.
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  • Money is our society’s most concrete form of power.
  • Needless to say, if more employers benefited from real education about how domestic violence works, and more workplaces had plans for dealing with it, fewer victims would lose their jobs.
  • But when we allow ourselves to move toward an understanding of domestic violence and sexism as economic issues—with all the seriousness and “real” political heft that implies—then we have both more urgency and more acuity in dealing with them.
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How domestic violence affects the economy - The Economist explains - 0 views

www.economist.com/...c-violence-affects-the-economy New_Zealand domestic_violence leave paid_leave employers costs economics
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  • it is also economic. Many victims skip work or show up late. Sometimes they (rightly) fear being stalked or killed at their offices. On July 25th New Zealand passed a law giving victims of domestic violence the right to take ten days’ paid leave from work. The goal of the law is to allow them to attend to emergency logistics—moving houses, seeking legal help or changing their contact information—without fear of losing their jobs. How is domestic violence an economic problem? 
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  • Canada offers paid domestic-violence leave in several provinces
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  • The Philippines is the only other country with paid domestic-violence leave, which it enshrined in law in 2004.
  • nly five days’ unpaid leave, which went into effect on August 1st.
  • Research by Women’s Refuge, a charity in New Zealand, found that 60% of people had full-time jobs when their abusive relationships began but half of them were no longer employed as those relationships progressed. Many victims stay with abusive partners at least in part for financial security. 
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#MeToo At The Southern Baptist Convention : NPR - 0 views

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  • had believed that Southern Baptists or evangelicals were immune to this kind of conduct that had been observed in other denominations, in part because you felt, well, you know, we don't have the requirements of other churches - like, for - say, priestly celibacy. And so you said that we can't even point to an organized conspiracy of silence within the denominational hierarchy. No, our humiliation comes as a result of an unorganized conspiracy of silence.
  • It points to God's gift and glory and creation of making male and female both equally in his image but with distinct roles. But one thing that any reading of the Scripture makes clear is that the abuse of anyone is always wrong.
  • I mean, it's considered to be complementarianism, which is a belief that the Bible reveals that men and women are equally made but that - in God's image but that men and women have different roles. And there are those who say no, this is a consequence of a belief that whatever you call it, it really means that men are put in an elevated position of authority and that women are demeaned.
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  • And that makes abuse impossible by that same confession of faith if it's held rightly. So we've got to make sure we are teaching both parts of that biblical truth all the time, everywhere.
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Paige Patterson removed as head of Southern Baptist seminary in #MeToo shake-up - Relig... - 0 views

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  • “He’s placed an emphasis on women’s role in the church that is fast being questioned, even in the confines of the present-day convention, as that letter signed by women asking for something to be done attests,” Leonard said. “These were not moderate, liberal women. These were women who came of age in the SBC and who challenged his particular theology of marriage and spouse abuse.”
  • But it was in his insistence on pushing back against feminism and the women’s movement and reinstating a biblical literalism when it comes to marriage, family, sex and the role of women that he made his mark.
  • Shortly after wresting control of the denomination, he helped push for a resolution opposing the ordination of women. In 1998, the year Patterson was elected president of the denomination, the convention amended its statement of faith to say “a wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband.”
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Purity Culture's Racism Robs Women of Color of Their Reproductive Agency - Rewire.News - 0 views

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  • those entrenched in white evangelical culture frequently imply that women of color are innately impure—particularly Black women, whose perceived sexuality is seen as both worthy of punishment and pity.
  • bigoted, racist stereotype that robs women of color of their agency
  • a white-led, conservative Christian, anti-choice organization hung a billboard reading, “The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb.” Such a statement at once demonizes Black women who choose to get abortions—who, by extension, have taken control of their own sexualities—and suggests that there is a need for a white organization to come in and “help.”
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  • disproportionately restricts birth control access to people of color with lower income.
  • The mostly white women’s purity ministry, Secret Keeper Girl, for example, spent much of 2013 raising money to take their Secret Keeper Girl tour into “the inner city of the Bronx” to spread the gospel of modesty there and a woman’s worth there.
  • If Black women are naturally promiscuous, then sexual fidelity and modesty will not come easily to them. They will need to be taught. And that is where the benevolent racism of white evangelicalism takes its greatest toll. By treating the Black community as an object to be acted upon, as opposed to a community with its own leaders and its own methods of confronting issues, white evangelicalism sets itself up as the savior of the Black woman.
  • Because the underlying stereotypes are never challenged, young Christians go into “inner cities” to minister there, and return to their cozy white existences without having challenged their institutionally enforced bias against people of color
  • But until the paternalistic theologies around race change, such integration in the churches will be next to impossible; people of color will continue to be silenced, ignored, or outright attacked on matters of sexual health.
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